Alex Rebchuk
alexrebchuk.bsky.social
Alex Rebchuk
@alexrebchuk.bsky.social
Neurosurgery Resident @ubcmedicine.bsky.social | MD, MSc | 🧠 🇨🇦
Congrats to Dr Sekhon and team from UBC on their recent discovery on the physiology of dying!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Check out our recently published operative video of kissing vertebral arteries causing myelopathy treated with bilateral MVD using a sling technique.

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Kissing Vertebral Arteries Causing Myelopathy Treated With... : Operative Neurosurgery
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June 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Reposted by Alex Rebchuk
Key points of this study include:

- TERT promoter mutations & CDKN2A/B homozygous deletion portend a worse prognosis for grade 3 #meningioma than elevated mitotic index
- p16/MTAP #immunohistochemistry is a promising surrogate marker for CDKN2A/B status

bit.ly/3uONcox
March 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Alex Rebchuk
The upcoming #CNO meeting includes a session on #meningiomas from two of our wonderful #ICOM members @FarshadNassiri and Dr. Serge Makarenko.

Read the full agenda here: bit.ly/4j3fDT6
April 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Recent publication in CJNS reporting the trends of ICH evacuation in Canada following the publication of ENRICH trial.

Always great to collaborate with other centers in Canada!

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Current trends in the surgical management of spontaneous lobar intracerebral hemorrhage in Canada: A nationwide survey | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences | Cambridge Core
Current trends in the surgical management of spontaneous lobar intracerebral hemorrhage in Canada: A nationwide survey
doi.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Excited to share our recently published case report in @bmj.com Case Reports written by our incoming PGY-1 Dr. Yoojin Choi.

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Chronic encapsulated intracerebral haematoma following stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformation
Chronic encapsulated intracerebral haematoma (CEIH) is a rare, delayed complication of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for intracranial arteriovenous malformations. There are no evidence-based guideli...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Congrats to our medical student Wendy Tsai on her publication in CJNS! We report a novel treatment paradigm for an epidermoid cyst malignantly transformed into a squamous cell carcinoma.

doi.org/10.1017/cjn.2025.45
Early Malignant Transformation of Intracranial Epidermoid Cyst: A Case Report and Systematic Review | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences | Cambridge Core
Early Malignant Transformation of Intracranial Epidermoid Cyst: A Case Report and Systematic Review
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March 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Alex Rebchuk
#MolecularAlterations of grade 3 #meningiomas stratify clinical outcomes more so than histologic features alone - this was one of the key findings from a recent investigation published by ICOM members.

Read full article and findings in #NeuroOncologyAdvances here: https://bit.ly/3CPORhQ
February 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Reposted by Alex Rebchuk
This article evaluates the overall survival (OS) and local recurrence (LR) in patients with grade 2 #meningiomas treated with adjuvant #radiotherapy compared to surgery alone at time of diagnosis.

Read more about their research: https://buff.ly/3ZUe43k

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January 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reposted by Alex Rebchuk
“Development and validation of a molecular classifier of #meningiomas” by co-authors Drs. Alex Landry and Justin Wang, in partnership with #ICOM, has been published in #NeuroOncology.

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/40AgLX5
January 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Alex Rebchuk
Development and validation of a molecular classifier of meningiomas | Neuro-Oncology | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...
Development and validation of a molecular classifier of meningiomas
AbstractBackground. Meningiomas exhibit considerable clinical and biological heterogeneity. We previously identified four distinct molecular groups (immuno
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January 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Just published an interesting case report in
@ahajournals.bsky.social of a polka dot ICH pattern

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
January 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM